You ask me how to pray to someone who is not All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge And walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard Above landscapes the color of ripe gold Transformed by a magic stopping of the sun That bridge leads to the shore of Reversal Where everything is just the opposite and the word is Unveils a meaning we hardly envisioned Notice: I say we; there, every one, separately Feels compa**ion for others entangled in the flesh And knows that if there is no other shore We will walk that aerial bridge all the same